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21st of December 1992 News
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CHRONICLE
Date: 22 December 1992
By Nadine Brozan
Nadine Brozan
United Press International is establishing an internship to honor HELEN THOMAS, who has been the news service's White House correspondent since 1961. Every spring, a woman who is studying journalism, chosen by the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism, an independent organization, will work in U.P.I.'s Washington bureau for a semester and receive a $1,000 stipend. The first intern, starting Feb. 1, will be JULIANA GRUENWALD, who graduates this month from the University of Minnesota.
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INSIDE
Date: 22 December 1992
U.S. Sues Over Air Fares The Government charged the eight largest American airlines with fixing air fares through use of a computerized reservation system. Page D1. Taking On Insurance Fraud In an assault on New York region insurance fraud, 22 adjusters, salvagers and homeowners were charged with lying about claims. Page B1. Crash in Portugal Kills 54 A Dutch DC-10 charter slammed into a runway in Portugal, broke apart and burst into flames, killing at least 54. But at least 282 survived. Page A6. 2,075 'I Do's' Later Ten years after a mass wedding by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, some couples say they and their church have grown up and settled down. Page B1.
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Los Angeles Times Pulls Back From San Diego
Date: 21 December 1992
While other cities have seen competition among newspapers disappear, this city, the nation's sixth largest, has the distinction of going from three daily metropolitan papers to one in 10 months. On Friday, the San Diego County edition of The Los Angeles Times, begun in 1978, closed after its last press run. In February, two papers owned by Copley Press Inc. -- the morning San Diego Union and the afternoon Tribune -- were merged into The Union-Tribune.
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American Reporter Accused Of Accepting K.G.B. Money
Date: 21 December 1992
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
Time Magazine and The Washington Post exchanged charges today over a report in Time asserting that a former Moscow bureau chief for The Post took $1,000 from the K.G.B. and may have been co-opted by Soviet agents. The magazine published an article in this week's issue saying that the assertion about the correspondent originated in statements made by a Soviet intelligence agent, Col. Vitaly Yurchenko, who apparently defected to the West in August 1985, then made statements to American intelligence officers that came under suspicion when he returned to the Soviet Union three months later.
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Gunfire Stops 415 Arab Deportees From Going Back to Israeli Zone
Date: 22 December 1992
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Ordered by Lebanese soldiers to leave their makeshift tent camp, 415 exiled Palestinians in southern Lebanon tried to march back into Israeli-controlled territory today but were stopped when Israel's client militia fired mortars and machine-gun rounds at them. The shooting seemed intended more to frighten off the Palestinians than to hurt them, and it worked, because they headed back to their camp. Nonetheless, two men were reportedly wounded, one in the hand and one in the jaw, by a piece of shrapnel.
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Better Late Than Never, Aid Organizations Say
Date: 21 December 1992
By Sam Dillon
Sam Dillon
Moved by images of suffering in Somalia and confident that donations can make a difference now that United States troops are in the country, Americans are contributing generously to a blizzard of fund-raising appeals, relief officials say. Yet with satisfaction has come soul-searching among relief officials about the tardy response to the crisis by some agencies, as well as ill feeling over the recent stampede into Somalia by groups that had no operations there until press attention made fund-raising lucrative.
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Amway President Is Succeeded by His Son
Date: 22 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Amway Corporation said its co-founder and president, Richard DeVos, had retired and would be succeeded by his eldest son, Dick, effective today. Mr. DeVos, 66, who founded the closely held direct-sales company in 1959 with Jay Van Andel, cited health reasons for his departure.
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FLEET CALL TO BUY COMPETITOR FOR $320 MILLION
Date: 22 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fleet Call Inc., the nation's second-largest operator of specialized mobile radio systems, said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire Dispatch Communications Inc., based in Bethesda, Md., in a deal worth about $320 million. Fleet Call, based in Rutherford, N.J., will issue about 16 million shares to Dispatch shareholders and will assume about $50 million of the closely held company's debt. Completion of the transaction, subject to shareholder approval, is expected in the second quarter. Dispatch is the third-largest company in the business.
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CINCINNATI MILACRON TO BUY GTE'S VALENITE UNIT
Date: 22 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The GTE Corporation will sell its Valenite unit, a maker of metal-cutting products, to Cincinnati Milacron Inc. for cash and assumed debt in a deal worth $80 million.
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W. R. GRACE TO SELL ENERGY ASSETS FOR $101 MILLION
Date: 22 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
W. R. Grace & Company said yesterday that it had agreed to sell an energy company and a portion of a second unit for a total of $101 million in cash. The conglomerate said the sales were part of its long-term plan to sell five energy subsidiaries to concentrate on its specialty chemical and health-care businesses. The sales are expected to close next month.
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